Health Policy category: 748 books
Incurable Me
Why the Best Medical Research Does Not Make It into Clinical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
A bold and persuasive polemic on the corporatization of healthcare by a pediatrician and pioneering advocate for integrative medicine.
In Incurable Me, a maverick physician brings transparency to some of medicine’s most closely guarded secrets. As he establishes a link between commerce and...
The Best Care Possible
A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life.
It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Statistics show that the vast majority...
Hippocrates Weeps
An Indictment of Changes for the American Health-Care System
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Over the past fifty years, medical care has changed rapidlyand not always for the better.
Technological advances and alterations in clinical service delivery have challenged physicians to remember to keep the best interest of patients in sharp focus. The Hippocratic Oath commits physicians...
Powerful Medicines
The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
If you believe that the latest blockbuster medication is worth a premium price over your generic brand, or that doctors have access to all the information they need about a drug’s safety and effectiveness each time they write a prescription, Dr. Jerry Avorn has some sobering news. Drawing on more...
Pharmaphobia
How the Conflict of Interest Myth Undermines American Medical Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
For millennia, human survival depended on our innate abilities to fight pathogens and repair injuries. Only recently has medical science prolonged longevity and improved quality of life. Physicians and academic researchers contribute to such progress, but the principal contributor is private industry...
Generic Drugs
A Consumer’S Self-Defense Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
When you purchase drug products, you dont expect them to be contaminated with antifreeze, industrial chemicals, glass, or dangerous bacteria. But this happens every day when uninformed consumers buy prescription or over-the- counter and behind-the-counter drug products.
Armed with the right...
The Truth About Getting Sick in America
The Real Problems with Health Care and What We Can Do
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
In today’s world, there are many hot-button topics that generate equal parts debate and confusion. At the top of that list is healthcare. For most Americans, finding out “the truth” about current problems or possible fixes is virtually impossible amidst all the emotionally charged rhetoric....
by Alex Broom
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
An inevitable and universal experience, dying is experienced by individuals in different ways, often related to the character of our relationships, family structures, gender identities, cultural backgrounds, and economic means. Drawing on extensive qualitative fieldwork with patients, carers and health...
The History and Evolution of Healthcare in America
The Untold Backstory of Where We’Ve Been, Where We Are, and Why Healthcare Needs Reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
From the beginning of mankind, health and health issues have played a major role in life, but the issues and care have evolved enormously from the time when the first settlers set foot in America to the present. In The History and Evolution of Healthcare in America, author Thomas W. Loker provides...
Informed Consent to Psychoanalysis
The Law, the Theory, and the Data
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
The goal of this book is to shed psychoanalytic light on a concept—informed consent—that has transformed the delivery of health care in the United States.
Examining the concept of informed consent in the context of psychoanalysis, the book first summarizes the law and literature on this...
A Town Called Asbestos
Environmental Contamination, Health, and Resilience in a Resource Community
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
For decades, manufacturers from around the world relied on asbestos to produce a multitude of fire-retardant products. As use of the mineral became more widespread, medical professionals discovered it had harmful effects on human health. Mining and manufacturing companies downplayed the risks to workers...
GMO Myths and Truths
A Citizen’s Guide to the Evidence on the Safety and Efficacy of Genetically Modified Crops and Foods, 3rd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
It is often claimed that the case against genetically modified (GM) crops and foods is based on emotion, not science, and that to oppose GM crop and food technology is to be anti-science. It is also claimed that GM crops offer higher yields and better nutrition, that they are safe for health and the...
The Global Biopolitics of the IUD
How Science Constructs Contraceptive Users and Women's Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
The biography of a multifaceted technological object, the IUD, illuminates how political contexts shaped contraceptive development, marketing, use, and users.
The intrauterine device (IUD) is used by 150 million women around the world. It is the second most prevalent method of female fertility...
Black Feat
A Personal Walk to Open Heart Surgery Where There Is No Foe to Fight Except a Contracted Self
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Caressing the spirit of African-American women both domestically and globally, Black Feat, through the power of story, offers a cultural perspective on medical impressions in black women and identifies duplicity in health care delivery.
Based on the authors true events during various stages...